But the latest poll from PRRI shows a stunning jump: 63 percent of Americans said they support making marijuana legal. In the September poll, 31 percent of respondents said they “strongly” supported legalization. Just over one-third of Americans — 36 percent — now say they oppose legalization, with only 17 percent opposing “strongly.”

Taken together, this year’s marijuana surveys suggest that Americans have grown even more bullish on the prospect of legal weed than they were in 2014, when the first retail pot shops opened in Colorado and Washington state and voters in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., opted to follow suit.

The PRRI survey, like the others, also suggests that legalization opponents are winning over conservative Republicans who have traditionally been skeptical of the merits of legalization. Nearly half of likely Trump voters — 48 percent — say that they support making the use of marijuana legal. Seventeen percent of Continue Reading

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